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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 March 2025. Landmark U.S. civil rights and labor law This article is about the 1964 Civil Rights Act. For other American laws called the Civil Rights Acts, see Civil Rights Act. Civil Rights Act of 1964 Long title An Act to enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the ...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. [7] It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, racial segregation in schools and public accommodations, and employment discrimination. The act ...
[56] [57] Byrd voted in favor of the initial House resolution for the Civil Rights Act of 1957 on June 18, 1957, [58] but voted against the Senate amendment to the bill on August 27, 1957. [59] Byrd voted against the Voting Rights Act of 1965, [60] [61] [62] as well as the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court. [63]
President Lyndon B. Johnson hands a pen to Rev. Martin Luther King after signing the historic Civil Rights Act in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1964.
The volunteers tested and reported violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act (signed into law August 9, 1965) to John Doar, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Based on this and related data, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) conducted investigations and deployed Federal voter registrars to counties that ...
McCulloch voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, [8] 1960, [9] 1964, [10] and 1968, [11] the Voting Rights Act of 1965, [12] and the Open Housing Act of 1968. [3] In 1970, he opposed the Nixon administration's efforts to weaken temporary provisions in the 1965 Voting Rights Act regarding voting rights of Black southerners.
Following the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, it was reported that VEP-funded registration drives succeeded in registering an additional 175,000 new black voters. [ 1 ] The VEP continued funding voter registration, education, and research efforts in the South until 1992 under subsequent directors Randolph Blackwell , Vernon Jordan ...
The actor revisited the speech he read at a 1964 civil rights event, saying it "means as much today, if not more than it did then" Dick Van Dyke/Instagram; FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Dick Van Dyke ...